{"id":83070,"date":"2026-07-01T11:26:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T01:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=83070"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:26:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T01:26:33","slug":"new-acquisition-for-esencia-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2026\/07\/01\/new-acquisition-for-esencia-wealth\/","title":{"rendered":"New Acquisition for Esencia Wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esenciawealth.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Esencia Wealth<\/a> has completed a merger with Cove Financial Group, based in Shellharbour, NSW, adding approximately 650 clients to the business.<\/p>\n<p>The merger is the firm&#8217;s third this year and brings four financial advisers and a team of 10 into the business, including <strong>Michael Edwards<\/strong> and <strong>Debbie Warriner<\/strong>, Principals and Owners of Cove Financial Group.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards will join Esencia Wealth as Partner and Senior Financial Adviser, with Warriner continuing in Client Operations.<\/p>\n<p>The merger with Cove Financial Group follows Esencia Wealth\u2019s Queensland expansion in March 2026 \u00a0that added Financial 3 Wealth and Marsden Wealth Advisers to the firm. In December 2025 FMA Wealth Management merged with the Esencia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esencia Wealth has completed a merger with Cove Financial Group, based in Shellharbour, NSW, adding approximately 650 clients to the business. The merger is the firm&#8217;s third this year and brings four financial advisers and a team of 10 into the business, including Michael Edwards and Debbie Warriner, Principals and Owners of Cove Financial Group. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":83073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,48,7734],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-appointments","category-company-news","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83074,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83070\/revisions\/83074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}